Promoting Healthy Behavior: How Much Freedom? Whose Responsibility?Daniel Callahan Georgetown University Press, 04/02/2000 - 192 من الصفحات The government, the media, HMOs, and individual Americans have all embraced programs to promote disease prevention. Yet obesity is up, exercise is down, teenagers continue to smoke, and sexually transmitted disease is rampant. Why? These intriguing essays examine the ethical and social problems that create subtle obstacles to changing Americans' unhealthy behavior. The contributors raise profound questions about the role of the state or employers in trying to change health-related behavior, about the actual health and economic benefits of even trying, and about the freedom and responsibility of those of us who, as citizens, will be the target of such efforts. They ask, for instance, whether we are all equally free to live healthy lives or whether social and economic conditions make a difference. Do disease prevention programs actually save money, as is commonly argued? What is the moral legitimacy of using economic and other incentives to change people's behavior, especially when (as with HMOs) the goal is to control costs? One key issue explored throughout the book is the fundamental ambivalence of traditionally libertarian Americans about health promotion programs: we like the idea of good health, but we do not want government or others posing threats to our personal lifestyle choices. The contributors argue that such programs will continue to prove less than wholly successful without a fuller examination of their place in our national values. |
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... ethical issues in medicine and the life sciences . Established in 1969 , The Hastings Center , located in Garrison , New York , is an independent , nonprofit , and nonpartisan research organization . The work of the Center is mainly ...
... Social aspects . 2. Health promotion - Moral and ethical aspects . I. Callahan , Daniel , 1930- RA427.8.P766 2000 613 - dc21 II . Series . 99-38856 CIP CONTENTS Preface vii DANIEL CALLAHAN Introduction ix MEREDITH MINKLER Personal.
... DANIEL CALLAHAN , BARBARA KOENIG , AND MEREDITH MINKLER Promoting Health and Preventing Disease : Ethical Demands and Social Challenges Contributors 171 Index 173 153 Preface This book is the result of a two - vi Contents.
... ethical and social dilemmas of health promotion and disease prevention . The project was carried out jointly by The Hastings Center and the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics . It was supported by grants from The ...
... ethical problems . No one speaks against them , the media and legislators feel kindly about them , health maintenance organizations ( HMOs ) have embraced them , and most of the available health care statistics seem powerfully to ...
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HELEN HALPIN SCHAUFFLER | 37 |
E HAAVI MORREIM | 56 |
ANN ROBERTSON | 76 |
RONALD LABONTE | 95 |
Finding | 137 |
MEREDITH MINKLER | 153 |
Contributors | 171 |